Mantis Bug Tracker

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Mantis Bug Tracker
Developed by Victor Boctor
Latest release 1.1.1 / Jan 2008
OS Cross-platform
Available in bulgarian, catalan, chinese_simplified, chinese_traditional, croatian, czech, danish, dutch, english, estonian, finnish, french, german, greek, hebrew, hungarian, icelandic, italian, japanese, korean, latvian, lithuanian, norwegian, polish, portuguese_brazil, portuguese_standard, romanian, russian, serbian, slovak, slovene, spanish, swedish, turkish, ukrainian, urdu
Genre Bugtracker
License GNU General Public License
Website http://www.mantisbt.org/

Mantis Bug Tracker is a free web-based bugtracking system. It is written in the PHP scripting language and works with MySQL, MS SQL, and PostgreSQL databases and a webserver. Mantis Bug Tracker claims support for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS, OS/2, and a variety of Unix operating systems. It is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

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[edit] Feature List

  • Free software.
  • Supports shared hosting environments.
  • Web Based.
  • Supports any platform that runs PHP (Windows, Linux, Mac, Solaris, AS400/i5, etc.).
  • Available in 68 localizations.
  • Simple or Advanced Issue Tracking.
  • Multiple projects per instance.
  • Supports Projects, Sub-Projects, and Categories.
  • Users can a different access levels per project.
  • Automatic Changelog generation.
  • Automatic Roadmap generation.
  • Customized "My View" Page allows developers to quickly see their assignments.(sample)
  • Search and filter:
    • Full Text Search
    • Simple/Advanced Filters
    • Shared Filters (across users / projects)
  • Built-in report generation (reports / graphs).
  • Custom fields in bug reports.
  • Email notifications.
  • Users can monitor specific issues.
  • Attachments per issue.
  • Issue change history.
  • RSS Feeds (news, issues matching saved filters, issues matching a specific project).
  • Customizable issue workflow.
  • Sponsorships support - users are able to place bounties or sponsorships for specific issues.
  • Anonymous access or private viewing.
  • Self signup with Captcha and email confirmation.
  • Self-Service reset password support.
  • Export to csv, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word.
  • Ability to extended functionality through custom functions.
  • Reporting Issues via custom forms.(Anonymantis)
  • Source Control Integration (SVN / CVS).
  • Wiki integration (DokuWiki, MediaWiki, XWiki, TWiki).
  • Time tracking.
  • Ability to send messages to other users in regards to a specific issue.
  • Public / Private Projects - Public project accessible to all users, private are only accessible to those explicitly added.
  • Public / Private Notes - Private notes are accessible to users with a specific access level to the relevant project.
  • Public / Private Issues - Private issues are accessible to users with a specific access level to the relevant project.
  • Issue Relationships.
  • Issue Relationship Graphs.
  • Attachment Auto-Preview.
  • Public / Private News (news can be associated with a specific project, or with all projects).
  • Sticky Issues (always appear on the top of the issues list).
  • Group Actions: actions can be applied on multiple issues.
  • Authentication methods:
  • Chat system (via Twitter).
  • Multi-DBMS Support - Mantis uses ADODB as an abstraction library to support the following database systems:
  • Webservice (SOAP API) - MantisConnect project offers client libraries and tools in .NET, Java, and Cocoa. Tools include Eclipse plugin, (N)Ant plugin, notifier, etc.
  • Support for mobile devices (MantisWAP).

[edit] Requirements

For Mantis 1.1.x

  • PHP 4.3.0 and higher
  • MySQL database 4.1.1 and higher (MS SQL and DB2 are also supported).
  • Web server (Apache, IIS, etc.)

For Mantis 1.2.x

  • PHP 5.2.0 and higher
  • MySQL database 4.1.1 and higher (MS SQL, DB2, and PostgreSQL are also supported).
  • Web server (Apache, IIS, etc.)

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